List of Famous Capricorns

Ryang Yong-gi is a Japanese-born North Korean footballer who plays for Sagan Tosu in the J1 League.

Ulf Mark Schneider is a German/American businessman, and the CEO of Nestlé. He is the former CEO of Fresenius, a €28 billion global healthcare group.

Corina Grünenfelder is a Swiss former alpine skier who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Wynton Alan Whai Rufer is a New Zealand retired footballer who played as a striker. He spent more than a decade of his professional career in Switzerland and Germany, achieving his greatest success at Werder Bremen, where he won a total of four major titles and finished the top scorer in the UEFA Champions League 1993–94 season. He was also a member of the New Zealand national team in its first FIFA World Cup appearance in 1982. He was named the Oceania Footballer of the Century by the Oceania Football Confederation.

Simon Peh Yun-lu was Director of Immigration of Hong Kong, and was appointed Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption in 2012.

Gao Xingjian is a Chinese émigré novelist, playwright, critic, painter, photographer, film director, and translator who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity." He is also a noted translator, screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter. In 1998, Gao was granted French citizenship.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves is an Estonian politician who served as the fourth President of Estonia from 2006 until 2016. Ilves worked as a diplomat and journalist, and he was the leader of the Social Democratic Party in the 1990s. He served in the government as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 1998 and again from 1999 to 2002. Later, he was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2006. He was elected as President of Estonia by an electoral college on 23 September 2006 and his term as President began on 9 October 2006. He was reelected by Parliament in 2011.

Allan Nairn is an American investigative journalist. He was imprisoned by Indonesian military forces under United States-backed strongman Suharto while reporting in East Timor. His writings have focused on U.S. foreign policy in such countries as Haiti, Guatemala, Indonesia, and East Timor.

Tomonori Kogawa is a Japanese animator and character designer, often noted for his work in the 1980s with noted anime studio Sunrise.

Sarah Höfflin is a Swiss freestyle skier. She won a gold medal in big air at Winter X Games XXII, and won gold in slopestyle at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.